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USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship with that name, after George Washington, Founding Father, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States.
In a first for CVW-2, the air wing deployed with the F-4 as the only fighter aircraft on board as well as the E-2A Hawkeye joining the air wing. It was in 1967 that CVW-2 began their long assignment to the USS Ranger which would last till the Ranger ' s retirement in 1993 (excluding the mid-1980s).
1 carrier airborne early warning (VAW) squadron detachment of 2–3 Grumman E-1 Tracer airborne early warning aircraft; By the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, a typical air wing consisted of ~90 aircraft: 2 fighter squadrons (VF) flying McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs or Vought F-8 Crusaders (the latter on Essex class carriers)
From 10 August 2022 to 23 April 2023, CVW-7 deploymend with Carrier Strike Group 10 (CSG-10), aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). [9] USNI News reported that CSG-10 is most likely set to relieve Carrier Strike Group 8 (CSG-8) and its flagship, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) with embarked Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1), in the Mediterranean Sea .
CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln: Nimitz: 11 November 1989 — 35 years, 20 days Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California [72] CVN-73 George Washington: Nimitz: 4 July 1992 — 32 years, 150 days Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California [73] CVN-74 John C. Stennis: Nimitz: 9 December 1995 — 28 years ...
Carrier Strike Group 9 (CSG-9 or CARSTRKGRU 9) is a U.S. Navy carrier strike group.Commander Carrier Strike Group 9 (COMCARSTRKGRU 9 or CCSG 9) is responsible for unit-level training, integrated training, and material readiness for the ships and aviation squadrons assigned to the group.
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113 (VAW-113) provided command-and-control capability with its E-2C Hawkeye 2000 aircraft. [6] Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 (HS-4) was one of four helicopter squadrons that operated 24 SH-60F and SH-60H Seahawk helicopters used to protect the carrier task force against an underwater force ...
Carrier Strike Group 5 led by USS Ronald Reagan with Air Force B-52 Stratofortress and Navy F/A-18 Hornet aircraft in September 2018. Carrier Strike Group 5, also known as CSG 5 or CARSTRKGRU 5, is the U.S. Navy carrier strike group assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet and permanently forward deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet.